Anti drug advocate and recovering heroin addict Douglas Darby speaks to students at Marinette High School in May about his descent into drugs in high school.

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As Douglas Darby stands on the stage of the crowded auditorium at Appleton West High School he feels like he's in heaven while speaking of the time he spent in hell.

He talks about his teenage years in which regular marijuana use led to OxyContin abuse and, later, heroin addiction; the father who, after 10 years of sobriety, died with a needle in his arm; and the drug store robberies for which Darby went to prison.

"There's a very selfish reason why I'm here on this stage," Darby says during his presentation, which combines elements of a tent revival and others of a Hip Hop show. "It helps keep me ...